Andrew Nelson Lytle (1902-December 12, 1995) was an American poet, dramatist, and professor of literature. He was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Lytle was affiliated with the southern agrarian literary movement along with poets Robert Penn Warren and Allen Tate, who he knew from his time at Vanderbilt University. December 12 is the 346th day (347th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Murfreesboro is a city located in Rutherford County, Tennessee. ... The Southern Agrarians or Vanderbilt Agrarians were a group of 12 American Traditionalist writers and poets from the Southern United States who joined together to publish the Agrarian manifesto, a collection of essays entitled Ill Take My Stand in 1930. ... Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 - September 15, 1989) was an American poet and novelist. ... John Orley Allen Tate (November 19, 1899 - February 9, 1979) was an American poet, essayist, and social commentator, and Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, 1943 - 1944. ... Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (colloquially known as Vandy) is a private, nonsectarian, coeducational university in Nashville, Tennessee. ...

His notable work includes Bedford Forrest and his Critter Company (1931), considered the classic biography of American Civil War General Nathan Bedford Forrest The American Civil War (1861–1865) was fought in North America within the United States of America, between twenty-four mostly northern states of the Union and the Confederate States of America, a coalition of eleven southern states that declared their independence and claimed the right of secession from the... Nathan Bedford Forrest Nathan Bedford Forrest (July 13, 1821 – October 29, 1877), was a Confederate general and perhaps the American Civil Wars most highly regarded cavalry and partisan ranger (guerrilla leader). ...

Lytle served as editor of the Sewanee Review from 1961 to 1973 as a professor at the University of the South. It was during Lytle's tenure that the Review rose in prominence to one of the nation's most prestigious literary magazines. Lytle retired from the university in 1973 and lived in a cabin in nearby Monteagle, Tennessee until his death in 1995. The Sewanee Review (founded 1892) is the oldest continuously published literary magazine in the United States. ... The University of the South The University of the South is located in Sewanee, Tennessee, and is a private, coeducational liberal arts college. ... Monteagle is a town located in Tennessee. ...